topic Re: Students sharing docs with students in Peer-Peer Topics

Students sharing docs with students

Meghan — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:24:31 GMT

Hello,

A teacher has asked me why some of her students cannot share a doc with another student.
I paused and asked her if that was what she really wanted, as I do see this as a place where students could communicate during school (why we turned of chat in docs, etc).

Never the less, when I investigated, I see that for the OU student, external sharing is inherited from top OU and permitted. So I do not understand why these students are having trouble sharing anyway.

Any advice is welcome. Thank you.

Re: Students sharing docs with students

Kim_Nilsson — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:46:16 GMT

A single user can block other users, and then sharing stops working.

Re: Students sharing docs with students

Kim_Nilsson — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:47:16 GMT

But it shouldn't be possible in your own or trusted domain.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10613533?hl=en

Re: Students sharing docs with students

JJ — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:03:05 GMT

We restrict sharing externally as we do not want students communicating with anyone outside our domain. We also restrict email to students by using an allow list.

Have you looked at the sharing settings on the document to see if the permission was applied? If it does show the additional student having permission, you may have some restriction on the sharing email notification from Google. If students are permitted to email each other they may be able to send the link to the shared document that way or they could send it to their teacher to send to the other students if it's restricted.

Hope this helps!

Re: Students sharing docs with students

Meghan — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:54:36 GMT

Thank you so much. This is a great help.

Re: Students sharing docs with students

newtonj — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:35:12 GMT

Also, if a student "borrowed" an assignment from another student it cannot be turned in through Classroom. I see that question a lot.